diff --git a/google-cloud-firestore/pom.xml b/google-cloud-firestore/pom.xml
index fd329140c..da3596e0a 100644
--- a/google-cloud-firestore/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-firestore/pom.xml
@@ -55,10 +55,6 @@
       <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
       <artifactId>grpc-protobuf</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
-      <artifactId>grpc-context</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
       <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b3d715b20..6d81fffe4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
         <artifactId>google-cloud-shared-dependencies</artifactId>
-        <version>3.15.0</version>
+        <version>3.16.0</version>
         <type>pom</type>
         <scope>import</scope>
       </dependency>